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Writings of RoadrunnerWMC
Personal blog · roadrunnerwmc.github.io/blogprogramminggames
Writings of RoadrunnerWMC is a personal blog at roadrunnerwmc.github.io about programming and games. Since 2021, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 3 times, most often “One Number Repeated Forever: RNG in NSMB (2020)”. The last post was in 2020, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Linked from an HN thread on code comprehension, where the comment argues that understanding what code does differs from understanding why and how to change it. Blog covers programming and software topics.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Whatever I feel like writing about.
Most-linked posts?
- One Number Repeated Forever: RNG in NSMB (2020)3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2021-05-03
What Hacker News says?
It was easy to understand what the code was instructing the computer to do. It was harder to understand what that meant , why it was happening, and how to change it. A program to calculate payroll might be easy to understand, but unless you understand enough about finance and tax law, you can't successfully modify it. Same with an audio processing pipeline: you know it's doing something with Fourier transforms, beca…
Comment linking /blog/2020/05/08/nsmb-rng.html
on “The Bitter Prediction”Submitted One Number Repeated Forever: RNG in NSMB (2020) as a story · 78 points
HN discussionSubmitted One Number Repeated Forever: RNG in NSMB as a story · 2 points
HN discussion